Screen Australia has announced that it will cease processing applications for the Producer Equity Program (PEP) for the remainder of the 2018-19 financial year, with funds for the program now exhausted.
Screen Australia has announced more than $600,000 of story development funding for seven feature films, four television dramas and five online series.
Director Warwick Thornton will turn his back on the limelight to experience life on an isolated beach in the remote Dampier Peninsula for NITV's 'The Beach', one of seven documentary projects recently backed by Screen Australia.
VICE and Screen Australia have announced director Isaac Elliott and producer Lucy Knox's Burlesque Blokes as the winner of their joint annual pitching comp, Pitch Australiana, held at AIDC earlier this month.
Deborah Mailman has been appointed to the Screen Australia board for three years, the second Indigenous person to serve in that role following Rachel Perkins
Network 10 and Screen Australia have launched a new documentary initiative, Out Here, focused on LGBTQI+ diversity in rural and regional communities.
Director Maya Newell's feature documentary 'In My Blood It Runs' will have its world premiere in competition at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Hunter Page-Lochard, Steve Le Marquand, Syd Zygier, Pallavi Sharda, Justin Rosniak and Kate Box join the cast.